When AIM was launched 30 years ago, few people would have said that the media were
doing the bidding of the government. Richard Nixon, who was hated by the liberal media,
was so upset by their biased coverage that he had Vice President Spiro Agnew attack the TV
networks in a speech in Des Moines on Nov. 13, 1969. The networks were deluged with
telegrams and letters from viewers who agreed with Agnew.

A major complaint was that they spread lies and concealed the truth to
undermine support for the Vietnam War. In 1999, they spread lies and concealed the truth
to generate support for the Kosovo war. At AIM's 30th anniversary conference, four panels
discussed this remarkable change and the reasons for it. The panel on the state of
investigative journalism was covered in the November-B AIM Report. This double-issue
report covers the other three and the luncheon speech by Larry Klayman.

George Kenney, a former State Department desk officer for Yugoslavia,
said that during the Bosnian war, some Bosnians decided that the best way to win U.S.
support would be to claim that they were the victims of genocide. Their claims that
250,000 to 300,000 Muslims were being slaughtered was a factor in winning the support of
the Clinton administration. Their numbers were accepted without question. Kenney said he
investigated them. In an article in The New York Times Magazine in early 1995 he reported
that the number killed on all sides in the fighting in Bosnia had been between 70,000 and
90,000. He believed that the Serbs killed more than the Croats and Muslims, but not by
much. When we went to war over Kosovo, the exaggerated death toll in Bosnia was cited to
make the claims of Serbian genocide in Kosovo credible.

Kenney said he had learned from a reporter who covered the Rambouillet
talks on Kosovo that a senior official had revealed that the talks had been set up to
fail. Secretary of State Albright wanted an excuse to threaten Milosevic with bombing to
get him to agree to her unacceptable demands. On March 18, the day the Rambouillet talks
broke down, Kenney said that David Scheffer, who had been given the title of Ambassador at
Large for War Crimes, adopted the genocide gambit. He claimed that there were
"upwards of 100,000 men that we cannot account for in Kosovo," implying that
they were dead. Our air strikes began six days later, justifying it by the claim that we
had to stop the genocide and ethnic cleansing. Kenney said that the Albanians who had been
displaced in the fighting in 1998 were beginning to return home. The displacement resumed
and greatly accelerated when we began bombing.

When Milosevic did not cave in and the number of civilian casualties
caused by our bombing mounted, Amb. Scheffer turned up the heat. In mid-May he said that
"a total of 225,000 ethnic Albanian men aged between 14 and 59 were missing."
Wire service stories quoted him as saying, "With the exception of Rwanda in 1994 and
Cambodia in 1975, you would be hard pressed to find a crime scene anywhere in the world
since World War II where a defenseless civilian population has been assaulted with such
ferocity and criminal intent and suffered so many violations of international law in such
a short period of time as in Kosovo since mid-March 1999."

Kenney said this was false, but it convinced a lot of people that
genocide was occurring in Kosovo. When investigators enter-ed Kosovo in June, the British
scaled down the death estimate, saying that maybe 10,000 had been killed. Kenney said the
investigators had not been able to find that many bodies. Sites alleged to have hundreds
of bodies, he said, turned out to have only a few or none. He said The War Crimes Tribunal
would soon issue a report that might say that 3,000 to 5,000 bodies had been found. Kenney
said that would not be enough to justify the war. The Tribunal's report, issued on
Nov. 10, said that only 2,108 bodies had been found and not all of them were Albanians
murdered by Serbs. If the search is resumed next spring more bodies may be found, but
Kenney pointed out that the prime sites had already been investigated.

Charles Wiley, a former correspondent who has covered 11 wars, said an
important story that was overlooked in the Kosovo war was how we were maneuvered into the
war by a handful of young English-speaking Albanians. He said that they started a daily
newspaper in Kosovo for the sole purpose of getting the West into the war. Virtually every
reporter and American diplomat who went to Kosovo went to them to get a briefing. The
visitors might then hire the young reporters as guides and interpreters and in some cases
would even ask them to edit their stories. Wiley said that was the equivalent of foreign
journalists checking in with Goebbels to find out what they should write about Nazi
Germany. The Christian Science Monitor was the only publication that reported this story.

Wiley said there was also little reporting on the vicious civil war in
Kosovo in 1998 even though many reporters visited the province, and we had 2,300 observers
there to try to keep the two sides apart. We were allowed to make six unimpeded flights a
day to take aerial photos so we could keep the situation under control, but all the
observers were taken out when we decided to go to war. Had they been kept there, Wiley
said, there would have been far less killing. Gen. Wesley Clark, the Supreme Allied
Commander, Europe, had said in a speech about six weeks before the bombing started that
the KLA had initiated an offensive in June of 1998 that brought at least 40 percent of the
province under their nominal control. Milosevic, despite a warning from NATO, moved in to
crush it with military power.

Gen. Clark's speech, Wiley said, made it clear that the KLA
started the war. "They were helped along by the leadership here and in England who
were dying to get into that war," Wiley charged. He said virtually all our top
military people were against it, but Gen. Clark was pushing it. Wiley said that British
officers with whom he had talked recently were overwhelmingly against the war, calling it
illegal. They referred to Gen. Clark as "Dr. Strangelove," because he was so
eager to start a ground war. Wiley said Clinton's war policy was "a series of
blunders on a horrendous scale." Kenney pointed out that the terms we agreed to after
the bombing did not include all the unacceptable demands we made at Rambouillet. He said
he was sure we could have reached much the same agreement without bombing.

M. Stanton Evans, a former newspaper editor, columnist and director of
the National Journalism Center, told the AIM conference that Senator Joseph
McCarthy's accusations about communist penetration of the U.S. Government were true
but understated. Evans is writing a book about this. He said that evidence of Soviet
penetration of the U.S. Government on a massive scale has now been confirmed. This has
been learned in recent years, he said, from KGB records, memoirs, spy confessions, the
Venona transcripts of communications between Moscow and its American agents during the
1940s, and FBI files. All of this information confirms that McCarthy was on the right
track, but he didn't know the full scope of the infiltration of our government. Evans
said we know the names of about 100 Soviet agents in the government, and there were
probably several hundred more.

It has long been known that the White House, the State Department and
the Treasury Department were penetrated at high levels by Soviet agents during the
Roosevelt administration. Alger Hiss at State, Harry Dexter White at Treasury and Lauchlin
Currie at the White House were among those exposed as Soviet agents over 50 years ago, but
only in recent years has evidence been found that is strong enough to convince their
diehard defenders. Evans pointed out that high-level govern-ment officials who knew how
strong the evidence was at the time were slow to act upon it. He cited the Amerasia case,
which broke in 1945, as one example. FBI wiretaps that are now available, he said, reveal
obstruction of justice on the part of high government officials to let the accused off
with token punishment even though they had passed hundred of classified documents to
Amerasia, whose editor was a Communist.

Evans charged that the effort to root the suspected spies out of the
State Department was "stopped cold" when Gen. George C. Marshall became
Secretary of State. He said that a congressional committee compiled a list of 108
suspected communists or spies who had worked, applied for jobs, or were currently employed
in the State Department. Explosive hearings were held, but President Truman issued an
order that stopped the internal effort to clean up the State Department and prevented
Congress from continuing its own probe.

He said that two years later, McCarthy got the list, the documents on
the Amerasia case, and other information, "and he blew the lid off it." McCarthy
read some of the material into the Congressional Record and demanded that the problem be
exposed and corrected. Evans said that claims that those on the State Department list were
"cleared" are totally false. McCarthy, Evans said, was threatening to expose one
portion of "a deeply embedded apparatus" in the government. He said the full
story would have embarrassed higher-ups in government who didn't want it to come out.
Evans concluded, "That's why he [McCarthy] had to be destroyed, and that is the
source of the disinformation that has persisted for the past 50 years."

Evans was asked about the evidence published in the AIM Report showing
that Harry Hopkins, FDR's closest adviser, was a Soviet agent. He said that
Christopher Andrew, co-author of The Sword and the Shield, claimed that Hopkins was
an "unconscious" Soviet agent, but Herbert Romerstein in his still unpublished
book on the Venona intercepts says the evidence shows that Hopkins was a fully conscious
Soviet agent. He agreed with Romerstein. He also said that Truman biographer David
McCullough was mistaken in claiming that Truman cracked down on the Soviet spies.

John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime, delivered a
devastating rebuttal to the anti-gun propaganda emanating from the White House and the
media. He said that "a lot of what we think we know isn't true" and that
the myths about guns are more likely to endanger lives than save them.

In 1997, he said there were about 440,000 violent crimes and over
9,000 murders committed with guns. By contrast, there were over 2 million violent crimes
prevented through the use of guns. The media, Lott said, focus on the former category
because it produces an actual victim or a dead body. The latter usually produces no rapist
or murderer or even a consummated crime. He said the media's emphasis on the bad
things that happen with guns causes the public to think that guns are more of a problem
than a solution. Lott said that within ten days after the highly publicized Atlanta
day-trader murders last summer, there were three incidents in Atlanta in which citizens
used guns to foil attacks. One was at a hospital, another at a hardware store and one
foiled the hijacking of a gasoline tanker. "Those got very little attention," he
said.

Lott listed several media myths. One is the notion that passive
behavior in the face of a criminal attack is the best course of action. Lott pointed out
that there are many different forms of active resistance. He said that women who react
passively are 2.5 times more likely to be seriously injured than a woman with a gun.
Another myth is that most murder victims are killed by acquaintances. He said that is
misleading because rival gang members who know each other, rival drug dealers, prostitutes
and their clients or pimps, and taxi cab drivers and their passengers are classified as
acquaintances by the FBI.

Lott said murderers are usually not your typical citizen. Ninety
percent of adult murderers have a criminal record and most are young males with low
I.Q's. Most murders are committed in urban areas. Eighty percent of the counties in
the U.S. have no murders in any given year, Lott said. The idea that anyone is a potential
killer furthers the gun control agenda, he said, because people who fear their neighbors
don't trust them with guns.

The myth that our murder rate is high because Americans own so many
guns crumbles under scrutiny, Lott said. He said that the states in the U.S. with the
highest gun ownership rate have the lowest violent crime rate. Also, states with the
biggest increases in gun ownership have had the biggest relative drops in violent crime.
Another misleading claim, he said, is that 13 children a day die from guns. But these
"children" include everyone under age 20. Seventy percent of them are 17 or
older. They are mainly gang members fighting each other.

Lott pointed out that widely used statistics overestimate the risk
involved in using a gun 25-fold and greatly underestimate the benefit. He said the
statistics on the benefit derived from gun ownership are based on the number of cases in
which the intruder is killed. He said that 98 percent of the time, simply brandishing the
gun is enough to cause the intruder to flee.

"It's not about right or left, it's about right and
wrong." That's how Michael McNulty explained why he has spent more than six
years of his life trying to uncover the truth about what really happened when some 80 men,
women and children died in the besieged Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, on
April 19, 1993. McNulty, whose new film, Waco: A New Revelation, has just been
released, has concluded that it was a case of murder by agents of the federal government.

The government claims that the Branch Davidians killed themselves, and
that no federal agents did anything that started the fire that consumed the compound. But
McNulty's discoveries of pyrotechnic devices in the evidence recovered from the
compound have now led to FBI admissions that it did use them. But it insists that they
were not used at a time or place that would make it possible to say they started the fire.
The FBI's belated admission that it used these devices at all has undermined
confidence in its veracity.

"We're starting to see some movement," McNulty said. He
had been told that he would never get his films made, that Congress would never hold more
hearings on Waco and that there was no chance of getting a special prosecutor to
investigate it. McNul-ty said he welcomes new congressional hearings, but he has some
doubts about the Danforth probe. He said that if Danforth is fired before Clinton leaves
office, he would assume that he had done his job. Otherwise he would begin to wonder.

McNulty praised Lee Hancock of the Dallas Morning News. She wrote a
negative article about his first film, Waco: The Rules of Engagement, but she has
changed. He praised her Oct. 25 story about Judge Walter Smith, who presided over the
trial that sent some of the Waco survivors to prison for forty years. Judge Smith, who is
now presiding over the wrongful-death lawsuit filed by lawyers representing some of the
survivors, has also changed his mind. Hancock traced this to Judge Smith's discovery
that the government may have concealed, altered or failed to reveal evidence. This stems
from Mike McNulty's revelations that the FBI used pyrotechnic devices and that Delta
Force personnel were present during the siege.

When Smith sentenced the Davidians in 1994, he said they had started
the firefight that began the incident, but he now says that is "a matter of great
dispute." He sees the new trial as an opportunity to discover the truth about what
happened. He has ordered every government agency "to disgorge everything in its files
even remotely related to the siege and send it to the Waco federal courthouse." He
said "extraordinary action was warranted in 'litigation that is unprecedented in
subject matter, scope and public attention.'"

McNulty said Timothy McVeigh committed the insane act of bombing the
Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people on the second anniversary of Waco
because the media "didn't help bring closure" to Waco. He believes that it
is the cover-up, not the truth, that is likely to trigger such actions. He also says it is
important that the public understand that the image the media gave of the Davidians was
highly misleading. He said most of them were from foreign countries including Britain,
Israel, Australia and New Zealand. He said, "They were just folks, a little
peculiar." He urged the audience to support and encourage those who were trying to
get the truth about Waco. To order his new video call 1-800-getwaco.

In a discussion of the continuing government cover-up in the TWA 800
case, Tom Stalcup, chairman of the Flight 800 Independent Researchers Organization (FIRO),
discussed the new radar data they obtained from the NTSB last June. These data, which were
unveiled at a news conference sponsored by AIM on August 27, show over 30 unidentified
aircraft and surface vessels that were within 30 nautical miles of the spot where TWA
Flight 800 was shot down. He said after three years and the expenditure of over $40
million, the TWA 800 investigation had produced nothing but "speculation over a
mysterious spark from an unknown source." He predicted that the NTSB's final
report would blame the TWA 800 crash on an explosion in the center-wing tank, explaining
that it could have been caused by a chafed wire carrying a high voltage being bundled with
a low-voltage wire supplying power to the sensors in the fuel tank. [Recently a story
suggesting exactly this scenario appeared in the press.]

Stalcup, a doctoral candidate in physics, said the radar data proved
that the $40,000 video produced by the CIA that showed the plane climbing 3000 feet after
it exploded was a lie. The NTSB produced a video that claimed the plane had climbed only
1,500 feet, but its animation showed it climbing 3,400 feet. That was because a climb of
only 1,500 feet would be imperceptible to eyewitnesses 10 miles away. The primary radar
showed the plane's speed accelerated sharply after the explosion. That proved that it
was falling, not climbing.

He then showed the ships and aircraft picked up by the radar, over 30
large ships, four of them doing 30 knots or better, and most of them already inside or
heading for military warning zone W-105. One of the aircraft was flying back and forth, in
and out of the warning zone, making sharp U-turns. He said the planes were without
transponders, indicating that they were military aircraft. None of them altered course
when TWA 800 blew up, none of them went to the crash site. "What were these
boats?" he asked. The NTSB, the FBI and the Navy refuse to answer that question.

Stalcup said that explosive residues, PETN, RDX and nitrates, were
found in the wreckage, but they were explained away, poorly in his opinion. Questions were
not asked by the media. He said, "It is the responsibility of the media to
investigate incidents of possible government wrongdoing....TWA 800 is an issue with
serious discrepancies. Many anomalies exist that seriously question and even undermine the
conclusions drawn by federal investigators. The media must begin to ask these hard
questions that should have been asked many months ago."

Jim Sanders, author of The Downing of TWA Flight 800 and a new
book, Altered Evidence, revealed what he described as a new smoking gun in the
Flight 800 case, the equivalent of the proof that the FBI used pyrotechnic gas grenades at
Waco. He said that a few months earlier he had obtained over 200 TWA 800-related documents
from David Hendrix, a reporter for the Riverside, Calif. Press-Enterprise who has played
an important role in gathering and reporting evidence in this case. Sanders displayed on a
screen what he said was "one of the really interesting documents."

It was a three-paragraph response from the office of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, dated Aug. 5, 1996, to a request for information on Navy ships and aircraft near
Long Island when Flight 800 crashed. Paragraph #1 dealt with a P-3 Orion aircraft that was
near the crash site. Paragraph #2 was blanked out. Paragraph #3 was boilerplate stuff. But
someone had typed an explanation of why #2 was missing. They wrote, "Paragraph 2 of
the last document in the released package contains information concerning the movement of
significant naval units and has been withheld under national security."

Sanders said. "This is the incendiary devices from Waco. It's
the same thing." It indicates that the Navy lied big time when it claimed that the
nearest asset it had to the accident site was the Aegis cruiser Normandy, 180 miles away.
When it was discovered that three submarines were closer, that statement was revised, but
the radar data showing over 30 what appear to be "significant naval units" were
kept secret.

He showed photos of portions of the wreckage of TWA 800 that he
obtained early in his investigation, apologizing for not being able to show the photos he
had taken just prior to his trial. The Justice Department had insisted that he promise not
to use or release those photos for anything except the trial. But he was able to describe
how the two sets of photos showed that important pieces of the wreckage had been altered
in an effort to make it better conform to the government's theory that the initiating
event of the crash was the explosion of the center-wing fuel tank.

The earlier photos had shown lots of holes and a screen mesh on which
there were lots of little pieces on the right side of the center-wing tank, the part of
the recovered wreckage labeled CW 601. He said this piece "had been blasted into tiny
pieces where it wasn't severely holed." But the photos he took last June showed
that the wire mesh and all the little pieces were gone. He showed a photo of "the
next-to-last" version of this piece of the wreckage, saying, "The holes are
gone...and its shape is considerably different." Pointing to the bottom of the photo,
he said, "This part isn't there today...To me it looked like somebody took a
power saw and sawed off the bottom. I don't know why, but it's different."

Sanders said he sent an e-mail to Peter Goelz, the managing director of
the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), asking him if he could provide a
reasonable explanation of the changes the photos revealed. He showed the reply he received
from Peter Goelz. It read: "Yes, I can, but I will not. Your first book was an
insulting fabrication. Can't wait for #2." Sanders commented, "Same guy who
trashed Kelly O'Meara before she got out of the building."

Sanders described the damage done to the right wing, beginning with the
mid-spar, which he said was blasted into such small pieces that they did not rebuild it.
He said, "Maj. Fritz Meyers (the National Guard helicopter pilot who saw the missile
and the explosions) carried a five-foot piece of the inner right-wing just outside this
hole (to Washington). It had holes in it; it tested positive for explosive residue. Many
more explosive-residue pieces were pulled out of there. NTSB investigators found me at an
airport a way back and showed me the photos of these other pieces that tested positive,
had holes blasted in them. They had photos of them that they wouldn't give me. And
those pieces...after they tested positive, they disappeared into thin air."

Sanders concluded, "This is what is going on now. They altered the
debris field, they have altered the pieces (of wreckage). There is a lot more of this.
This is just scratching the surface on things that you can prove beyond any doubt
whatsoever, they have altered to make things go their way. This is the state we're in
when major media will not offer a balanced story. I don't want them to tell my side.
I would just like them, when they're telling their side, to balance it, not lie about
it, but just to balance it. I think that's a reasonable expectation. It's really
major media's fault that the government's in the sad shape it's in today
and why we all are here, because major media is so incredibly irresponsible."

Sanders said the government has admitted it had threatened to prosecute
his wife, even though it had no evidence that she had done anything wrong, because it was
desperate to get him. Despite their threats, he refused to make a deal with the
prosecutors. This persecution of a journalist has gone largely unreported and has never
been protested by the establishment media or any politicians. [Jim and Liz were convicted
of aiding and abetting the removal of two small swatches of foam rubber from an airplane
crash site, but they have not been required to serve any time in jail, perform community
service, nor endure probation.]

Sanders recognized a member of the audience, Kelly O'Meara of
Insight Magazine, for her efforts to get the truth. O'Meara was the subject of a hit
piece by Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post after she asked Peter Goelz of the NTSB about
the radar data showing unusual movements of all those ships in the area of the TWA 800
crash. Goelz had promptly called Kurtz to complain that her questions were offensive.
Kurtz promptly wrote a story that was critical of O'Meara for doing what
investigative reporters are supposed to do. He did this at the behest of a senior
government official whose refusal to answer important questions posed by anyone keeps the
cover-up intact.

Dana Allen, chairman of NewsMax.com who substituted for Chris Ruddy,
said the growth of their Internet news service demonstrates the hunger that exists for
stories that get badly covered or ignored by the major media. He said NewsMax, a year
after it was launched, is getting over a million hits per day. It features the
investigative reporting of Ruddy, the first reporter to question the official version of
Vince Foster's death, and the author of The Strange Death of Vincent Foster.

Allen, who first met Ruddy at an AIM conference in Los Angeles,
resigned as chairman of a Silicon Valley software company to help launch Newsmax.com. He
said that he regarded another Ruddy scoop as one of the biggest stories that the
establishment media have ignored-the apparent bullet hole found in Ron Brown's
head after his plane crashed in Croatia on April 3, 1996. He said, "You have
photographs of the bullet hole, you have X-rays showing a 'lead snowstorm'
inside the brain cavity, and you have four officers that have come forward and said that
when his body was on the table they go, 'My god, there's a bullet hole in Ron
Brown's head.' And that's what everyone thought. Not only that, we have
videotape testimony from these officers that they heard that the X-rays were going to be
destroyed. And the reason today that we have the photographs and the X-rays is that the
forensic photographer on the site thought there was a cover-up in progress, and she took
photographs of the X-rays and photo-graphs that were on top of the light box at Dover Air
Force Base.

"That's the only reason that we have this evidence. There
should have been an autopsy. There was not. The White House ordered the body flown back
immediately, before normal procedures, so they could supposedly bury the body at Arlington
National Cemetery. It appears the more reasonable reason was to help cover up
evidence." He said the photographs and X-rays can be found on Newsmax.com, and people
are welcome to print them out and distribute them.

Allen briefly discussed two of the suspicious aspects of the Ron Brown
plane crash. One was the death of the stewardess who survived the crash, allegedly from a
severed artery in her leg, which raised the question of how she had lived for 11 hours
after the crash. The other was the alleged suicide of airport maintenance chief Niko
Junic, who was in charge of the beacon that was supposed to guide the plane to the airport
at Dubrovnik but which guided it into St. John's mountain instead.

Allen said he believes that "the pretend media" know that
Vince Foster did not kill himself in Fort Marcy Park. He thinks they know exactly what
they are doing. He told of a call he got from Don Hewitt, the executive producer of 60
Minutes, in response to a letter he had written criticizing the hatchet job Mike
Wallace had done on Chris Ruddy's groundbreaking work on the Foster case.In
the letter, he had challenged Hewitt to join him in presenting the evidence in the Foster
case to an arbitrator. They would each have 30 minutes to present their case. The
arbitrator would decide which was right, and the loser would pay the winner $5,000. Hewitt
called him to discuss it, but he refused to bet. Allen saw that as proof that they know
they are wrong.

He cited another $5,000 wager that he had offered Bob Wood-ward. He
called in when Woodward was on C-SPAN. In his book, Veil, Woodward claimed he had
interviewed William J. Casey, the former Director of Central Intelligence, in his hospital
room after he had undergone surgery for a brain tumor. Allen offered to bet Woodward
$5,000 that he couldn't pass a lie detector test on that story. He said his call
rattled Woodward. "He fumbled, he stuttered, he was not willing to take it,"
Allen said. He has it on tape. He said other reporters know that Woodward's story is
false, but they are not willing to say so publicly. They protect their own. They
don't police themselves.

Allen said the media claim to be extremely interested in freedom of
speech. "If they were," he pointed out, "Jim Sanders would be a hero."
He said the media were not interested in what Jim Sanders had exposed. They are interested
in power for themselves to alter the political landscape and get the people they want into
office. Another example he cited was Juanita Broaddrick's charge that Bill Clinton
had raped her. It made the news for a couple of days

and was dropped. He asked if anyone could imagine that happening if the
charge had been made against Nixon or George Bush. He also cited the contrast between the
media's interest in the question of whether George W. Bush had used cocaine, for
which there was no evidence, and their the lack of interest in the same question with
respect to Bill Clinton, for which there is a lot of evidence.

He said there is also abundant evidence that Clinton has frequently
used the unprintable "N" word, but that never gets reported by the pro-Clinton
media. And finally, he pointed out that Clinton could not get a security clearance if one
were required for the presidency. That is a story that even the alternative media have
overlooked, he said. He recommended boycotting those media that are lying and supporting
those that tell the truth.

Journalists today are almost all graduates of liberal arts colleges and
their education has a powerful influence on their reporting. That is why we had a panel on
the media's rotting roots in education and culture.

Dan Flynn, executive director of Accuracy in Academia, said colleges
like to talk about diversity, but their notion of diversity in the faculty lounges is
"where everyone should look like the United Nations but think like a San Francisco
coffee house." They're willing to hire people who come from different
backgrounds and be different colors and genders but their mentality is the same. Surveys
of the partisan political affiliations of professors at major universities show that
Democrats outnumber Republicans by margins as high as 31 to 1. Flynn commented on the bias
in higher education, saying, "That's not diversity at all. That's waging
war on real diversity-intellectual diversity."

The ideological bias is reflected in general courses as well as those
for students pursuing a journalism degree such as "queer media" and "race,
gender and the media." Outside of the journalism departments, the situation is
equally bleak. At Harvard and Columbia, courses are offered bearing titles like
"Queer Acts." The course description says, "Drag will be encouraged but not
required." Flynn commented, "Perhaps we should be thankful for that."

On college campuses, there is an emerging field known as "Gay and
Lesbian Studies." A textbook for students in this field describes
"boy-lovers" as being unfairly stigmatized. The feminist author, who teaches at
a major university, attacks the FBI and postal inspectors for investigating and
prosecuting pedophiles, who, she says, should have their civil liberties protected. She
calls pedophiles a "community of men who love under-age youth" and she describes
child molesting as a "cross-generational encounter." She also wants to protect
those who engage in sadomasochism-inflicting pain for sexual pleasure-and
trans-sexuality. "It might be funny if no one was listening to this," commented
Flynn. "But this essay is required reading in a course at Harvard and other
lesser-known schools that try to play follow-the-leader with some of the elite campuses
around the country."

The latest growing fad is animal rights, Flynn said. Peter Singer, who
has been hired as a professor at Princeton, believes in human rights for some animals but
no human rights for some humans. He terms the use of animals for human purposes to be
"speciesist"- a form of racism toward animals. Singer believes it's a
form of discrimination to eat a hamburger, but that parents should be able to have their
new-born killed because it's not really human. In protest of Singer's views,
Steve Forbes has said he will not make any more gifts to Princeton. Flynn said others
should do the same.

Dr. Clark Bowers, who until recently served as the Fred Schwarz
Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Harvard, said we have to understand who and what ideas
have driven the dominant philosophy in American education today. He believes the most
important individual today is Michel Foucault, whose books are in widespread use in
college courses. Bowers said most people would be shocked at what this man espoused.

Bowers described Foucault as a pervert who visited the leather district
in San Francisco, where he participated in sadomasochistic activities, including torture
and the use of pain to generate sexual pleasure. [As did Joshua Brown and Davis Carpenter,
the two homosexuals who murdered 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising last September.] Foucault
con-tracted AIDS and died in the early 1980s. Bowers com-mented, "This is the man who
has been put in the shrine of higher education."

He said Foucault was part of a tradition that rejected absolute truth.
Although a leftist, he also rejected the idea that leftist ideologies such as communism
represented the truth. He believed there is no truth and no right or wrong. Another
philosopher in this tradition, Friedrich Nietzsche, taught that God did not exist, but
Foucault went further, stating that man did not exist. He argued that man did not have the
right to impose his views on others. He argued for the abolition of prisons and insane
asylums on the ground that society did not have the right to imprison or treat others for
mental illness just because some people think or act differently.

Bowers said the Foucault philosophy is being imposed on students in the
name of promoting openness and tolerance. The result is not only the education of students
without a need for knowledge of the truth, but the subversion of our system of government,
which is based on certain God-given rights and constitutional principles. He said America
has become a place where different groups simply compete for power over others, regardless
of the truth.

Cliff Kincaid, an AIM contributing editor who, together with Reed
Irvine writes and broadcasts Media Monitor, AIM's daily radio commentaries, discussed
how the major media have abandoned the search for truth. He said objective reporting is
dead and has been replaced with interpretative reporting, under which reporters decide
whether you have the right to know something and whether something is worth reporting in
the first place. Kincaid believes that one factor behind the media's failure to cover
many important stories is that the media establishment is preoccupied with other matters,
such as making sure their newsrooms are "diverse." Rather than search for facts
or truth, the emphasis these days is to hire reporters on the basis of almost anything
other than his or her qualifications for the job.

He said that The American Society of Newspaper Editors has adopted a
so-called "diversity mission statement," which means having more liberals of
different colors and ethnic and sexual backgrounds. The national convention of the
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association has already featured a person with a
woman's name who is identified as a copy editor at the New York Times. The person,
wearing women's clothes, is a man who likes to dress like a woman. This is where the
media are heading in their quest for tolerance of the homosexual lifestyle.

In terms of news coverage, he said, the homosexual influence means that
so-called hate crimes against homosexuals get played up. This is why many people,
including the mostly conservative audience at the AIM conference, had heard of the murder
of gay Wyoming student Matthew Shepard. But few had heard about the brutal gay rape and
murder of a 13-year-old boy, Jesse Dirkhising of Arkansas. The story has been almost
completely ignored by the national media.

Larry Klayman, the Chairman and General Counsel of Judicial Watch,
demonstrated the fearlessness and tenacity that in just five years has made Judicial Watch
the organization that the wrongdoers in the Clinton administration fear most. The theme of
his speech was "Courage is doing what is right and not worrying about the
consequences." That had been the principle on which Judicial Watch was founded. He
said it had brought cases that uncovered Chinagate and discovered John Huang, sparking the
entire scandal. He said they were deeply involved in Filegate, Travelgate, the threats to
all of the women, the wholesale violation of our privacy rights and most recently the
discovery that the FBI is keeping a database on religious and pro-life activists. He said
they had filed a lawsuit on that. He added that Judicial Watch had FOIA suits in the
Foster case for AIM, and that they were prepared to take the one seeking the crime scene
and autopsy photographs all the way to the Supreme Court.

Klayman said there had been an unprecedented degradation of ethics and
morality in the past six years. It was not only the Clintons and the Democrats who were at
fault. One of the manifestations was the recently televised roast of Don Imus, described
by Klayman as "the most cynical individual on radio...Imus sat there with the
beautiful people, Paul Begala, Senator McCain, Senator Domenici, Senator Lieberman."
Klayman said, "It's all just showbiz. It's not getting the job done in
terms of justice, it's positioning. And as long as we are a member of the club, what
do we care about the country? We're fat and happy." He said, "That's
the image that we at Judicial Watch and at AIM abhor."

He praised Bill O'Reilly as "the best on TV," but he
said O'Reilly starts to shake if you mention Vince Foster because people will call
you a conspiracy theorist. That is one of the subjects that is taboo at the Fox News
Network. He cited the AIM suit to get the Foster photos released as a case in point.
"The deceased have no privacy rights," he said. "And there are
discrepancies in the various reports....What's wrong with getting these photos?....He
could have been knocked off. What's wrong with saying that, and what's wrong
with raising those questions?...Bad things do happen here. The prime minister of Italy is
under indictment for murder...These questions need to be asked, but the lower court judge
would not even look at these photos in camera, in private, to confirm whether or not there
was a government cover-up."

Klayman said, "The issue is this: "Why wouldn't the
judge look at it? Because the judge was feeling the same thing that Bill O'Reilly was
feeling on the stage. 'If I look at this, I become a conspiracy theorist. I'm
going to be smeared by the left-wing media. I can't have that happen.' I'm
just supposing what runs through a human being's mind. And this is a good person. He
is an intelligent person, but he didn't have the courage to even look at the
photographs in camera." Klayman attributed this to fear of the media, saying that
"it makes them feel defensive." He said, "We are kidding ourselves if we
say we can say whatever we want in this country."

After describing the problems he had encountered in trying to block
bank loans to the Clintons for the purchase of their house in New York that involved de
facto illegal gifts of hundreds of thousands of dollars, he said the judge was troubled,
but he was unable to find the courage to do what needed to be done. He said, "This
kind of fear is something that pervades the system. Unless you are part of the group,
unless you're part of the establishment media....you are ostracized. Even the
judge...This is what we have tried to prevent."

He said that a handful of judges had been assigned to Judicial
Watch's cases who do have courage. But even they, he said, have to think about the
media reaction. These judges, he said,"now have in their hands cases that are ripe to
a point where they have the ability to change the course of American history, cases that
deal with treason, bribery, the violation of privacy rights, wholesale threats to women,
the misuse of government resources." He said that with "the stroke of a pen,
they can restore order and respect."

THIS IS A DOUBLE ISSUE OF THE AIM REPORT, AND COMBINED WITH THE LAST ISSUE, which
covered the panel on the state of investigative reporting, it covers every talk at the
conference except that of Justice Clarence Thomas, who asked that his banquet speech be
off the record. I can tell you that his remarks were very moving and very well received.
He said some very nice things about AIM and shook a lot of hands, posed for photos and
signed autographs. He is truly an outstanding human being and an outstanding Supreme Court
justice.

I HOPE YOU WON'T BE DETERRED FROM READING THIS REPORT BY ITS LENGTH. YOU WILL find
it not only interesting but also useful as a ready reference for facts on the many topics
covered. I found something in the remarks of Dan Flynn, the executive director of Accuracy
in Academia, that was very relevant to what I have written about the media's failure
to cover the Jesse Dirkhising murder. Jonathan Gregg of Time said the
torture-murder of 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising by two homosexual men "offered no
lessons." He called the killers "sick men" and "monsters." E.R.
Shipp, the Washington Post ombudsman, in a phone conversation with me, professed not to
know that sadomasochism and pedophilia play an important role in the lives of many
homosexuals. Like Gregg, she saw no lessons to be learned from the murder.

READ WHAT DAN FLYNN SAID AT OUR CONFERENCE AND YOU WILL LEARN THAT A professor [Gayle
S. Rubin] at a major university [San Jose State] opposes the prosecution of pedophiles,
calling them a "community of men who love under-age youth." She also defends
sadomasochism. She has an essay on this in a book [The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader]
that is required reading in courses at Harvard and other universities. She equates
condemnation of bizarre and dangerous homosexual practices with racism. Jesse's
killers were doing what kids in college are being taught is acceptable. Now the
homosexuals, backed by several organizations of educators and other professionals, have a
campaign to get every public school in the country to teach that what homosexuals do is
normal.

THERE IS A VERY IMPORTANT LESSON HERE, BUT I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYONE ELSE CONNECT the
dots between this campaign and the media's suppression of the Dirkhising story and
the recent stories about homosexual serial murders in Colombia and Pakistan. I mentioned
the case of Luis Alfredo Gavarito in the November-B report. I have since verified that all
of his 140 victims were young boys who were first tortured and then killed. I have just
learned of another homosexual serial killer, Javed Iqbal Mughal, a Lahore businessman who
was reported on Dec. 3 to have murdered over 100 boys and then dissolved their bodies in
acid. These are big stories in Colombia and Pakistan, but they have received little media
attention in the U.S. These two cases teach that sadistic thrill seekers may go
progressively to greater extremes. A tiny jaded fraction develops a taste for murder, the
ultimate forbidden fruit, and that's how we get monsters like these. Publicizing
these stories would definitely not help the campaign to get all public schools to teach
youngsters that homosexuality is normal.

KEN STARR IS BUSY POLISHING HIS IMAGE ON TV TALK SHOWS. HE WAS ON C-SPAN'S Washington
Journal on Dec.10. He got one call about the Foster case, specifically about the
Knowlton appendix that the three-judge panel ordered Starr to attach to his report on
Vince Foster's death. The caller said that Patrick Knowlton, an eyewitness in the
case, and his attorney had charged that "some of the information in your report did
not correspond with the deposition that he had given to federal agents." Starr
replied, saying that his investigation had "laid to rest the unfortunate and,
frankly, groundless suggestions that there was foul play involved in the death of Mr.
Foster." He gave the impression that he was willing to let Knowlton make the record
more complete by submitting his appendix. He said that he had no opportunity to rebut it,
leaving the impression that he would have done so if he had had the chance. This was
disingenuous. He tried but failed to get the judges to rescind their order that he attach
the Knowlton comments as an appendix to his report.

IT APPEARS TO ME THAT THEY WANTED IT ATTACHED BECAUSE THEY SAW THAT THE criticisms were
valid and they wanted to make them known. If Starr wanted to rebut them he could have done
so in a press release, and he can and should do so now that he is going from show to show
proclaiming that he has laid to rest all "the groundless suggestions that there was
foul play involved in the death of Mr. Foster." Bill O'Reilly asked about this
when Starr was on his show on the Fox News Channel on Dec. 13. Here's the Q&A.

O'REILLY: "Some of your investigators have told us off the record that Vince
Foster did not commit suicide and that your office was not aggressive enough in
investigating the Vince Foster situation. How do you reply?"
STARR: Bill, you didn't get that from my investigators. I don't know who you got
it from.
O'REILLY: I did. I did.
STARR: They, they did not think that--
O'REILLY: I got it from one of your investigators. I have to tell you. I would never
say an untruth on this show.
STARR: We looked at every aspect of that death, and we came unanimously, those of us
involved in it, so I will look forward to finding out who this person was.
O'REILLY: You'll never get it from me because, you know, just like you, I keep
confidences. But look, this person said, and it was backed up by another, that there were
unanswered questions about Vince Foster's suicide. Are you 100 percent sure that
Vince Foster committed suicide?
STARR: Absolutely.
O'REILLY: You're 100 percent positive.
STARR: 100 percent that he committed suicide, that it was done at the very point where his
body was found.

STARR WAS TAKEN ABACK WHEN TOLD THAT SOMEONE ON HIS STAFF DID NOT AGREE with his
conclusion and did not think the investigation had been aggressive enough. So much for his
claim that he had laid all the doubts to rest. The same evening that show was aired, a
forum on the Foster case was held in Crystal City, VA, just across the river from
Washington. The speakers were Hugh Sprunt, myself, and Patrick Knowlton, John Clarke and
Hugh Turley, the three authors of the greatly expanded Knowlton appendix, which is now a
hefty 510-page, 8"x10" book titled Betrayal of the Public Trust, FBI
Cover-up.com. [You can get it on the web or order a copy from AIM for $29.95 ppd.] If
Starr had been there he would have seen the absurdity of his claim that he has laid all
doubts to rest. But a proxy for Starr was there, Jim Clemente, an FBI agent who was a
member of his team and is still at the OIC.

CLEMENTE HUNG AROUND AFTER THE FORUM WAS OVER, GIVING US AN OPPORTUNITY to try to get
answers to the many questions we had posed. Clemente told us that we were wrong about
everything, but he claimed he could not discuss specifics because of the rule that bars
discussion of anything that is involved with the grand jury. He said that if we only knew
what he knew we would see that we were wrong. I asked him two questions to test the depth
of his knowledge, questions that he could not evade with that excuse. One was how
Foster's glasses ended up 13 feet downhill from his body. He said they slid down the
hill. He had never tried, as I have, tossing a pair of glasses on that slope to see how
far they would go. They don't slide far. The other was about the brown car that was
about to exit the Ft. Marcy parking lot when the driver heard the fire engine approaching
and jumped out of the car to hide so fast that he left the engine running. It was gone
when all the searchers returned to the lot. This is reported in FBI interviews with two of
the firefighters and the first police officer to arrive, but Clemente had never heard of
it. I believe this was the old brown car that had served as a stand-in for Foster's
car, which got there 15 minutes before the rescue personnel arrived. Brett Kavanaugh, who
wrote the Starr report, had also flunked this test. I am sending a list of questions to
Starr. A card to Starr is enclosed urging him to answer them and one for an editor of your
choice about his claim that he has laid to rest all questions about Foster's death.

CHARLES WILEY, THE MOST POPULAR LECTURER ON AIM'S SPEAKERS BUREAU, TOLD OUR
conference about the reception he received speaking at the University of California,
Berkeley recently. He said he is invited to speak there every year as the token
conservative. Speaking to four or five hundred students, he had blasted everything that
supposedly the youth culture buys today-the MTV culture, the sex frenzy, the
in-your-face behavior, the disrespect, the lack of meaningful values. He said he called
for more knowledge and a belief system, some real values, some civilized behavior and
above all building character. When he finished he got a standing ovation. And then a girl
from Ukraine came up and told him she had been in this country four years and this was the
first time she had heard anyone talk about character. He said this shows that the kids are
looking for answers. The problem is that there are not enough people who share our values
who know how to reach them.